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At the time of writing, Lemmyworld has the second highest number of active users (compared to all lemmy instances)

Also at the time of writing, Lemmyworld has >99% uptime.

By comparison, other lemmy instances with as many users as Lemmyworld keep going down.

What optimizations has Lemmyworld made to their hosting configuration that has made it more resilient than other instances' hosting configurations?

See also Does Lemmy cache the frontpage by default (read-only)? on !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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[โ€“] s900mhz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may be wrong, but there is a branch in the works (UI repo) that pulls the web socket out and replaces it all with http calls. So the web socket may not be here for long

[โ€“] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're correct, the devs are already committed to deprecating the websocket API. This may make caching easier in the future and people may use it more as a result. I'm a little bit skeptical as most of the the heavy requests are from authenticated users, and web-proxy caching authenticated requests without risking serving them up to the wrong user is also non-trivial. But caching is not my area of expertise, there may be straightforward solutions here.

But my comment was in reference to current releases in use on real world Lemmy servers.

[โ€“] s900mhz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I didnโ€™t intend to downplay your comment. Caching at the proxy later with auth is something I am not familiar with. I never had to implement it in my career. (So far ๐Ÿ˜…) I just wanted to make it known that the web socket may be a thing of Lemmy past for anyone unaware

[โ€“] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I didnโ€™t intend to downplay your comment.

I never interpreted it that way. Your comment was helpful, and I was expanding on it with more context. Lemmy on, friend.